Year: 2003

After my battery ran out last night (a problem with an SDIO driver I was using), I had the enviable task of re-installing all my PocketPC applications. While doing this, I thought I would take the opportunity to list my top five free applications and utilities I just can’t live without… 1. IcBar – Provides the…

This week, the Microsoft Patterns and Practices Group released a new guide: Application Interoperability .NET and J2EE. This new guidance is based upon the concepts of my book and has a primary aim of showing an end-to-end reference application called XBikes. The XBikes applications takes a number of interoperability technologies (Web services with webMethods, .NET…

(Re-post from my old blog…) Occasionally, I get that ‘wow, that’s cool’ feeling when looking at some technology. This happened to me late last week when I was doing some work with SQL CE on my PocketPC device. Now, I knew that SQL CE existed – and I know I have even mentioned…

(Re-post from my old blog…) For some reason, the past week has definitely been one for catching up on movies. The latest batch include: Phonebooth (2/5 – disappointingly short and predictable) 28 Days Later (3/5 – an original British film, but lacked a convincing plot) Bend it like Beckham (5/5- home from home, great story. Hilarious)

(Re-post from my old blog…) I’ ve had a few emails recently asking about the book and wanting to find out some more information before laying down the money to purchase it. Given the ‘one liner’ we have on Amazon about it, I think this is a fair comment, so thought I would dedicate some time here about…

Occasionally, I get that ‘wow, that’s cool’ feeling when looking at some technology. This happened to me late last week when I was doing some work with SQL CE on my PocketPC device. Now, I knew that SQL CE existed – and I know I have even mentioned it in a couple of talks…

For some reason, the past week has definitely been one for catching up on movies. The latest batch include: Phonebooth (2/5 – disappointingly short and predictable) 28 Days Later (3/5 – an original British film, but lacked a convincing plot) Bend it like Beckham (5/5- home from home, great story and hilarious)